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STAMP GROOVE 0R REGBSS POR SHIPPING GASES.

No. 520,921. Patented June 5, 1894.

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1 i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. GOODWILLIE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE D. M.

GOODWILLIE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

STAMP GROOVE OR RECESS FOR SHIPPING-CASES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,921, dated J' une5, 1894.

Application filed February 8, 1892. Renewed April 20, 1894. Serial No.508,374. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, CHARLES F. GooDwIL- LIE, a citizenwof the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in StampGrooves or Recesses for Shipping-Cases, of which the following is afull,clear, and exact specification.

It is very desirable and necessary that revenue and other like stampswhen applied to the shipping boxes or cases should be in somemannerprotected from the injury or mutilation which they are likely to receivein the ordinary handling of the box or case during transportation; andthe importance of this is obvious as the ordinary manner of cancelingthese stamps is to deface or mutilate them and hence when onceLmutilated there is no manner of determining whether the mutilation wasdone before or after shipment. One Way of protecting such stamps is toprovide the side of the box with au ordinary label holder or rectangularframe raised above the level or surface of the box, but such methodshave many disadvantages and are in greater part ineffectual; for, in thefirst place,`the expense is too great to warrant their use, and secondlythey soon become damaged and knocked off under the rough handling towhichthe cases are subjected,

. and furthermore with such constructions it is diflicult to scrape thestamps off when desired.

The object of my invention, therefore, is to provide shipping cases andthe like with simple, eiectual and durable means for receiving andprotecting the stamp, and which shall be so formed as to permit thestamp to be read- In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan.

view of the stamp groove or recess showing a stamp situated there1n,'andFig. 2, 1s a sectional view thereof, taken on the line.2-2, 5o Fig. l. Y

In carrying out my invention, I prefer to form iny one end of one of theboards A, of which the box is composed, a flat bottomed groove or recessB, having a depth of from one-fourth to one-half of an inch below thesurface of the board, and being provided at one end of its bottom With agradual bevel or incline C, and at its other end with an abrupt wall D.This groove may be formed at any 6o point in the length of the board A,butI prefer for the sake of simplicity in manufacture, to start thegroove near the end of the board and scoop or gouge it all the Way outto the extremity of such board, before the'box is 65 made up, and thennail or otherwise secure the side or end board E over the end of theboard A, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2, thus' conveniently forming theabrupt wall D.

The stamp F may be stuck or secured in 7o the bottom of the groove B,which is smooth and flat, and will there be sufficiently protected fromdislodgment or any injury that might otherwise be caused by the cornersof other boxes or. objects rubbing against the sides of the stampedcase. The groove being gradually inclined or beveled at one end asshown, makes it possible to scrape the stamp out of the groove withoutinjuring the sides of the latter, by simply running a chisel or 8o sharpedged stick or other like instrument back and forth in the groove fromthe inclined end; and the abrupt end or wall of the groove or recessarrests the movement of the chisel thus used, and such wall being formedby a separate board whose grain is perpendicular to the plane of thegroove, the end of the groove is not split, as would be the case werethe groove formed at the mid-length of the lboard and such end or wall Dcom- 9o posed of a partof the same board. The object in making the wallD-abrupt, beyond being merely incidental to the convenient manner ofconstructing the groove' or recess, is that it is not so liable to besplit by the chisel in scraping out the stamp, even when formed of thesame board in which the groove is formed, as abeveled or inclined Wallwould be; because the chisel would always strike at the base of theabrupt Wall, Whereas, if the wall were inclined, it would be as likelyto dig into it near the top or surface of the board 5 and thus chip offslivers of the Wood.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A box -provided with a stamp groove or lo recess formed in theextreme end of one of its boards and being provided at one end Wit-h theincline or bevel C, and at its other end with an abrupt wall such Wallbeing,r formed CHARLES F. GOOD WILLIE.

Witnesses:

F. A. HOPKINS, R. C. OMOHUNDRO.

